Insanely Cool Tools - Substack Edition #21
Best tools in your pocket! 📱
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I’m starting something NEW! 🚨
Slowly (in talks with a few companies atm) and starting this week, I’ll not only share the latest tools and websites but cool gadgets too!
This week’s first company is Ekster.
Disclaimer - I wasn’t paid for this. I reach out to companies I find interesting and ask if they’d like to promote something to you.
All gadgets will eventually be given away to newsletter readers. Let me collect 2-3 of them and you’ll have a chance to win! 🎁
Ekster is running a Father’s Day sale with up to 53% off on wallets, backpacks, and other cool stuff.
They sent me the Cardholder Pro for MagSafe in Orange.
P.S. Feel free to share companies you like, and if you work at a company that makes cool gadgets, don’t hesitate to reach out.
Cuey (New!)
A free Chrome extension that cross-checks ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini in one tab. Perfect for catching hallucinations on high-stakes decisions you can't afford to get wrong.
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Invcly
📌 A forever FREE invoice tool. Draft, send, and get paid.
Carousel Maker
Create carousels for LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook. Choose from templates, add your text, or let AI do the work for you.
📌 50% off a lifetime deal with code → ICT50
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🔥Trending Tools
Convika
With Convika you can ship landing pages instantly. It lets Claude, Codex, or any MCP client create, publish, and measure landing pages - just describe what you want.
Firma
An electronic signature API at just $0.029 per signature, built developer-first for startups and SaaS companies. Clean REST API, embeddable template and signing editors, and integration that takes hours instead of weeks.
Asmi
An AI that handles your personal chores in the real world. It calls services like dentists, salons, plumbers, banks, and insurance companies, or even people like friends and colleagues, to coordinate, book, and resolve things. Updates you on iMessage or WhatsApp when done.
Honen
Honen helps you create employee training that keeps up with your company. It turns team knowledge into interactive AI-led courses in seconds, complete with adaptive lessons, simulations, and learner insights.
Speed Reader (Mac only)
Read 2-5x faster with zero effort. Speed Reader uses RSVP to show one word at a time, at your pace. Articles, books, and PDFs.
SubTracker
Track, manage, and optimize all your subscriptions in one place. Import bank statements, scan emails, and never lose track of a recurring payment again.
Mute
A spatial board for everything in your head. Brain-dump it, sort it, feel the relief. Do this first, then jump into your tools like Trello, ClickUp, or Notion. Built because the maker needed it, used every day - free while they launch.
PixelForge
Turn one photo into a recognizable RPG character that actually walks - a 4-direction sprite pack with a 4x4 sheet, 16 transparent PNG frames, and walk GIFs, ready for Godot, Unity, or the web.
Folio
Folio AI creates and fixes your presentations in seconds. It works with real shapes, not images pretending to be slides, so everything stays editable. It follows your template while keeping full creative flexibility.
Taste Lab
Point your AI agent at any website and get back a complete design breakdown - colors, typography, spacing, and the reasoning behind every decision.
📱Mobile Apps
Both (iOS + Android)
📍Allergo
Creates translated allergy cards covering common food allergies, coeliac disease, and medicine allergies. Ready for Apple Wallet so restaurants understand exactly what you can’t eat, in their language.
📍Journey Now
Turns anything you want to learn or master into a personalized, step-by-step plan - with daily guidance, reflection, and a view of how your friends are progressing too.
📍Kosh
A USD account built specifically for freelancers and creators across Asia. Unlike Wise or Payoneer, which often restrict or delay USD transfers in many Asian countries, KOSH lets you receive payments directly from Upwork and global clients.
📍Juno
An AI personal health companion for people living with chronic illness.
📍HyperSleep (Android only)
Your social apps stay locked until multi-sensor detection verifies you actually slept. It auto-starts at bedtime, runs 100% on-device, and turns “scroll less” from a matter of willpower into something you actually earn.
📍Pause Moment (Android only)
It locks your phone screen silently for a duration you set in advance: 1, 2, 3, 5, or 10 minutes. The lock screen shows your own photo and your own words, written when you were at your best. No swipe, no snooze.
📍Low Tide Calm (Android only)
Guided breathwork, check-ins, journaling, a dopamine menu, grounding, and activity tracking. The whole thing is built around one idea: when you’re stressed or scattered, the last thing you need is a cluttered interface.
📍Diarai (Android only)
A daily companion designed to help you understand your emotions and improve your mental wellbeing through AI analysis. Capture your daily experiences and feelings effortlessly.
📍CueBuddy (iOS Only)
A voice-following teleprompter for iPhone and iPad. It scrolls your script as you speak, so creators can record talking videos, courses, speeches, and vlogs without manually controlling the speed. When you pause, the script pauses.
📍Medicyn (iOS Only)
Keeps your medical history completely private - on your device, offline, with no accounts or tracking. Store your complete health record: conditions, medications, prescriptions, allergies, lab reports, surgeries, and more.
📍TrakMac (iOS Only)
Voice-first macro tracking for fitness enthusiasts. Tell TrakMac what you ate in plain language and it returns calories, protein, carbs, and fat in seconds.
📍Tamadoggo (iOS Only)
A living journal and a warm place to hold every walk, meal, vet visit, and milestone. It surfaces patterns across the timeline, gives breed and age-aware suggestions, scans vet documents into auto-filled records.
🤪 Crazy/Fun/Cringe/Strange
Keep (iOS Only)
Turn your iPhone into a living clock display.
CakewordAI (iOS Only)
Point your camera at anything and Cakeword cuts it out into a sticker, then says its name in the language you’re learning.
The Virtual OS Museum
Over 1,700 pre-installed operating systems spanning 1948 to today, all in a single Linux VM. Bundled with QEMU, VirtualBox, and UTM. One-click launchers for Windows and Linux.
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If you try anything from this list and it sticks, hit reply!
Always curious what actually makes it into people’s daily stack.
See you next week! 👋